In this book the editors present
Japanese and German contributions to common fields of interest in management.
Part 1 discusses corporate ethics across cultural boundaries.
Entrepreneurial policies and efforts to guarantee sustainability of our
precarious world are analysed, and energy supply is not only part of
sustainability but has also become the core of adequate risk management of
the firms.
The financial crisis of 2008 et seq. is the subject of part 2. Critics
request more transparency in transactions on the capital markets. More
transparency means better accounting regulations and improved financial
statements.
Ever since Gary Becker introduced the notion of learning and of human
capital into the production functions of neoclassical economics, human
capital has become a major field of research in management science. The
contributions in part 3 report on personnel economics in Japan and Germany.
The papers in part 4 review the impact of Gutenberg’s theory on teaching and
practicing management in Japan. Springer Publishers published 24 editions of
the “Foundations, vol. 1”. All three volumes were translated by Japanese
scholars. Two papers in this part of the book present new interpretations of
Gutenberg’s work and deal with misunderstandings of his theory.
In the final part readers find an example of close cooperation in developing
the field of a comparative theory of the firm.

CONTENTS

Part 1: Global Topics of Management
Corporate Ethics in a Global World (Koichiro Hioki) · The Fostering of
Socially Trustworthy Companies and the Role of Top Executives – A Pathway
from Unstable to Stable Companies in Japan (Mitsuhiro Hirata) · Trust in the
Firm: Some Remarks on the Mathematical Economics of Trust (Horst Albach) ·
Is Sustainability Relative? – Considering the Application of Baseline
Concepts in Sustainability Management (Peter Letmathe) · Energy,
Infrastructure and Society: Challenges for Japan (Tomoki Waragai)

Part 4: Theory of the Firm Eugen Schmalenbach and the Leipzig School of Commerce (Andreas Pinkwart)
· Erich Gutenberg and the Theory of the Firm in Japan (Kyoichi Futagami) ·
Gutenberg’s Theory of Growth: The Adaptation System (Wolfgang Lücke) ·
Theory of the Firm: Erich Gutenberg and Misunderstandings of his Theory
(Horst Albach)

Part 5: Cooperation in Research Twenty Years of Cooperation in Research (Tomoki Waragai and Horst
Albach) · Analysis of Efficiency Change Processes – An Analysis Example
Using the Kaisha-Database (Tomoki Waragai)